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This x 100. In the normal office environment audio cues are pretty much the main thing you can't bring home. Just hearing small conversations going on around you and being able to passively process them and jump in and out as necessary is a game changer for collaboration.

I have tried to build an "audio office" product based on low-latency spatial audio over the web but it's way too far outside my expertise. Glad to see that someone else is on it!

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This freaks me out. You like ambiet conversation with discernible speech!?

I had someone send me a recruiting message on Stack overflow jobs once about a product like this, and it's one of the few times I declined on the basis I fundamentally disagreed with its existence. How do you focus?

While your statement is true it reads like a non sequitur because it misunderstands GP’s objection, which is not to others’ opinions but rather to unfiltered noise in the workplace. Or rather, to a product that pipes in noise that deliberately evades filtering. To focus properly I need silence or something equivalent. This has nothing to do with others or their opinion or my subjective evaluation of the same. It’s a matter of attention.

Yes, this was my interpretation. I don't mind cafes or whatever, because as many people mention, the blending together of all those convos is fine, and helps sometimes, but would lose my job in am office pretty quickly at this point. All it would take is one asshole crunching an Apple and I'm done

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